The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-10 00:00:00

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster. EMINENI! TALENT AND COMEDY. This popular Theatre is Open for the Winter Season. Those celebrated artistes Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews are re-engaged. THIS EVENING, Mr. Arthur Sketchley's high?) , successful and original Comedy of HOW WILL 'I ILEY GET OUT OF IT ? Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews, Cllr. and Mrs. F. Matthews, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. 11, J. Montague; Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling, Alter which, a New Comedy Farce. by Maddison Morton, Esq., entitled WOOD OCK'S LITTLE GAME. Mr. C. Mathews, Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with UNDER THE ROSE. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tau DAY.—Morning, Bh. 32m.—Afternoon, 9a. 20m Eo-moaßow.-Morning, 9h. 59.32.—Afternoon, 10h. 44m THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY• LANE.- Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, AN APRIL FOOL. Mr. R. Roxby, M-. lx. Belmore, Mr. Fitzjames, Mr. G. Weston, and Miss Hudspeth. After which, at a quarter to Eight o'c'ock, Shaksnere's Tragedy of OTHELLO. Mr. Phelps ; Mes rs. Creswick, Walter Lacy, G. F. Neville, A Rayner, Raymond; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, and Miss Atkinson. Doors open at ha f-past Six—Commence at Seven. T HEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET,- Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, MADEMOISELLE E D BELLE ISLE. iklessrs. Howe, Farren, Gordon, Baird, &c. , Mesdames Bezttrice, Ange!, &c. Atter which, PRESENTED AT COURT. Messrs. Buck stone, How.., W. Farren, Rogers, Clark, Bra'd, &c.; Ares_ eatues Snowdon, Griffith, Eli 1, Wright, Lovell &c. And SACCHUS AND ARIADNE. To commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the sole management of Mr. Fechter. This Theatre will OPEN on SATURDAY. October 22, with a New Drama, entitled the KING'S BUT rERFLY, in which Mr. Fechter will pertcrm the principal character. The lEcencry painted by Mr. William Cailcott. The Box-office will open on Monday, October 17, from Elev n till Four. RO YA L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.— Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. I addy O'Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Forrester. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Fanny Gwynne. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, GOOD FOR. NOTHING. Messrs. J. Clarke, Billington, Eburne, and Mrs. Alfred Mellon. After which, RORY O'MORE. Rory (with Irish Ballads), Mr. John Collins. Other ch aracters b y Messrs. Billin g ton' R. _Phillips, Paul Bediord, Stuart, Stephenson, C. J. Smith ; Mre, Alfred Mellon and Miss Kate Kelly. To conclude with TEDDY THE TILER. Teddy (with songs), BJr. John Collins. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, JNLIMITEO CONFIDENCE. Followed by, at Eight, MILKY WHITE. Messrs. Craven, Stoy le, James ; Mesdames Swanbor Aigh and Mande s. After which, the great Burlesque, THE MILLER AND lIIS MEN. Messrs. Fenton, James, and Thorne; Mesdames wanborough, Simpson. Johnstone, Hughes, and Carson. COALS. —The LI LLES HAL G COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 2,55. per ton. I Double ..21s. per ton. :Cop 21s. „ Decp ....225. „ Weil screened and delivered within five miles of their De pote, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, faddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. J3est Coke Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole I..gertt aIHE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," 1. Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, Dart be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, Nzwe AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN" supplied, as soon as published every Evening by HENRY BROOKS, Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish street, W. e lfs„.4 Nyuit, LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 10, 1864. How to expend the greatest amount of public money with the least possible result is the problem which our Board of Admiralty appears to have set itself to solve. They have often succeeded in coming vary near a result, but their last achievement really outdoes themselves. The public have grown so accustomed to their mal.adnainistration and extra vagance that they have almost ceased to wonder and exclaim, but the case in question is so flagrant that it has aroused the attention even of those who look on all Admiralty proceedings with quiet despair. Great interest has been excited by the trial of Captain COLES'S much-talked-of system of turret ships, and it was a source of general satisfaction when it was first decided at headquarters that his method should be submitted to the fair test of prim tical experiment. It was many a long year before this concession was made, but the decision when come to was generally applauded, for without in any way committing ourselves to unconditional approval of the system, we must say that Captain COLES'S perseverance and ability, the skill with which he supported his views before competent examiners, and the favour with which they have been received in scientific and professional circles, alike entitle his model turret ship to a fair trial. This point, however, was gained, and the Admiralty, following their favourite plan of cutting down and altering whenever it is possible to find an excuse for doing so, directed that Captain COLES should convert the Royal Sovereign, a costly wooden three decker, into a turret-ship on his system. And now, what is the end of the story ? The ship is completed, equipped, manned, and put under the command of a very able officer, Captain OSBORNE, and all who are interested in such matters are watching with anxiety the results of her winter campaign. The trial trips have been as yet satis factory, and her commander has expressed himself well pleased with what he has seen of her. All is ready for the promised fair trial, when the public is startled by the intelligence that the ship is paid out of commission and placed in the steam reserve —when and in what form to be allowed to re appear, may be asked. Such a proceeding is outs rageous alike to common sense and justice. It is undoubtedly due to Captain COLES and his sup. riders that the ship should be sent fairly to sea and allowed to prove her sea-going capacities. That is the very point on which he especially claims prece dence for his system over the famous American Monitors, which, however formidable at close quar ters, have been proved to have the serious draw. back of being generally unseaworthy. A ship may be in the mysterious list of the steam reserve for fifty years without anyone knowing how she would behave in rough weather at sea ; and thus Captain COLES'S invention is pronounced to have failed, quietly huddled oat of sight with the hope, per haps, that it will drop out of public remembrance. Bat the public feel that they have been ill-used no less than Captain COLES. Why, if the experiment was not worth trying fully and fairly, was a vcesel that cost a hundred thousand pounds to be sacrificed to it, and the public money wasted in an experiment which was never intended to be carried Out ? Why, if there really were grounds, as there undoubtedly were, in the present transition state of naval architecture, for testing how much Captain COLES's plan was worth, should the work stop half Way ? Why should men and officers who have learned how to work this particular ship be paid off, and their knowledge turned to no account ? Why are we to g o on building iron plated ships on the ordinary plan, when all the time the turret Alps, for what we know, may prove far superior as vessels of war ? We cannot see that the Admi ralty excuses for the proceeding are at all satisfac. tory. It is gravely asserted that the Royal Sove reign was never intended for a s ea - going ship at all, but merely as a fliating battery for harbour defence, capable of being sent to any part of the Channel, with squadron—that but not adapted to cruise her want of masts and the lowness of her decks disqualify her for a seagoing ship, and to try her with the ships of the Channel, would be of no practical use. She was sent to Portland, we are told to try her turrets and guns; and that since an accident necessitated her going into a dockyard, Captain OSBORNE sent up a list of alterations that were requisite, when it was thought no advantage would be gained by keeping the ship in commission daring the winter, so in one of our 'Admiralty's periodical fits of economy officers and men were for the most part paid off, and the grand new experi ment, the Royal Sovereign, transformed into a tender to the Excellent. There are several points in this explanation which require explanation them selves, The Royal Sovereign, we are told, was never in her new form intended for a sea-going ship. But ,she certainly was intended for a sea - going ship when first built at an outlay of a hundred thousand pounds, and if Captain COLES was to do no more than build a floating battery he might, one would think, have been allowed to construct it for himself without spoiling a ship of the calibre of the Royal Sovereign. But it was generally understood that the Royal Sovereign was to be a seagoing ship, and unless Captain COLES has been very much misrepresented that is certainly the impression he intended to con vey. There is no great miracle in constructing an effective floating battery " capable of being sent to any port in the Channel, but not adapted to cruise with a squadron." A good many professional men could, no doubt, design such a one without devoting ten years to perfecting and publishing it. The very merit of Captain COLES'S scheme is its professed superiority to the American method, which makes the ships unsea worthy; and if his real endeavour is to be no more than a floating battery, it is decidedly inferior to monitors, which have contrived to go to sea. As for the assertion that the absence of masts and the low decks of the Royal Sovereign disqualify her for sea-going purposes, that is virtually deciding against all turret ships, for the low decks are one of their distinctive features. To say that it would be useless to grant the ship a trial is to prejudge the case. It would have been fairer to the inventor and to the public to say it was useless to make the experiment at all. When the affair first begun, it was certainly given out that the Royal Sovereign was to be a fair test of Captain COLES'S method, and as such the public accepted it. The "floating battery" is only, we believe, a convenient excuse, for nobody doubted that Captain COLES could con struct a Ousting battery. We should like to hear what he has to say on the subject ? We should imagine he feels considerable indignation as well as disappointment at the issue of this much talked-of trial, which has really been no trial at all. There is one thing certain. When Parliament meets we shall hear something more about this " floating battery," and we shall hope that one practical result of the affair will be the application of the Admi. ralty's favourite principle of conversion and al teration to their own Board, which needs a thorough remodelling before it fulfils the requires meats of the public service. News received from New York up to the let of O ttober, still leaves the actual condition of affairs uncertain. Bat all that we gather from the vague and hesitating details of the grand encounter between SHERIDAN and EARLY, seems to confirm our original impression that the Federal success had been greatly exaggerated in the first instance. The Americans claim to make war on a new scale, and certainly not only in the gigantic extent of their undertakings, but in the eccentricity of their results they have reversed the whole system of old world military tactics. We, of the old school, should not thick very much of a triumph where the victor cannot keep his communications with his own Government open and from which the vanquished retreats in safety with the whole of his trains and stores. Yet such appears to have been the case at "Winchester, and it is very certain that the discrepancy between the losses on the two sides cannot have been fairly stated, since SHERIDAN has not thought fit to push on his ad vantage. When the Confederates state their losses at 2,500 killed, wounded, and missing, and the North will not calculate theirs, the case looks bad for the Federals, and the capture of SHERIDAN'S couriers by Confederate cavalry in his rear makes the matter worse. It is true that the Federal Government may find it just now very convenient to receive no despatches direct from the seat of war, but the people cannot be deceived for long. Mean while in Missouri and Alabama the Confederate star is again the ascendant. General PRICE has entered Missouri with his whole army; he is within 60 miles of the capital of St, Louis, where business is sus pended, and the citizens are arming themselves, in answer to an appeal from the Federal corn. mender, General ROSENCRANS, The real sympa thies of the West are mainly with the South, and if the Confederates hold, St. Louis it will be an important step gained. In Alabama, again, General FORREST has advanced successfully ; and it was anticipated he would cut off SHERMAN'S communi cations with Nashville. These two simultaneous movements in the 'West are full of importance, but the PRESIDENT and his associates will take care that as little as possible is known until the great political contest is concluded. It is a stormy pic ture, at best, and the real lovers of their country, whether North or South, may well look with a heavy heart on the widespread and continuous devastation. It is always to be regretted when those who at tempt to administer justice fail in some of its chief requisites, for the harm that such mistakes occasions is always incalculable. One of the most glaring cases of undue severity that has been made public for some time is recorded as taking place in Kent. A poor boy of fourteen years of age was brought be fore General. HIICIIENS, charged with the trifling offence of having knocked down six walnuts from a tree in a field. Surely, it was hardly worth whil e to have brought up the youth on such a charge at all, but the most that was awarded to him should have been a reprimand or a fine. We are not told that the boy had been seen before to commit such an offence, and his own version of the affair might well have condoned his error in the sight of any one less austere than his judge. He said that he had been disappointed at his ill success when out nutting, and that he was tempted by the appearance of these walnuts in question. He therefore threw a stone and took up six that fell. It seems almost it lredible th it, upon hearing such an account, General IlliciieNs should have 'oilseed such a sentence as that which followed. The poor boy was condemned to Maidstone prison, with hard labour, for six months, The option of a fine was not allowed. Can anything be more monstrous than such a sentence . ? It is virtually ruining the boy for life, and taking away his chance of earning an honest livelihood, because he has done as hundreds do every day, and helped himself to a trifle. It is not as if he had entered a house and taken a small portion of property ; that would have been a very different affair, and ought to have been deft with rigorously by way of prevention. The punisbroent of six months' imprisonment with hard labour is dealt out to many who have committed assaults on others, 1 TEL SUN, LO_NUON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1864. and half killed_them perhaps, and such an award is deemed sufficient, yet this poor boy is to un. dergo a like penalty because he has been charged with a most trivial fault. Such things ought not to occur in the administration of justice, and it is to be hoped that some inquiry will be instituted into the circumstances of the affair. The Home Secretary should certainly turn his attention to this affair, and ascertain the grounds upon which such an extraordinary sentence could have been passed. It is a scandal to the community that such harshness should be tolerated, and it will prevent the rezurrence of the like inconsistency for the future if notice is taken of this departure from jos. tice which has taken place under the mask of the law. There can be no greater mistake committed than to send those convicted of trivial offences at an early age to mix with felons, and it is a wrong thing to strain the law so that a youth should bear the stigma of imprisonment upon him at his en. trance into life. Beyond these considerations it seems that in this case a direct error has been com mitted by the Magistrate himself, and for the sake of justice, which can never be too perfectly ad. ministered, some decided steps should be taken to prevent the chance of similar inconsistencies again arising to shock our sense of propriety. • DRURY-LANE THEATRE. If anything could obliterate the notion that to ensure success managers of metropolitan theatres must of neces sity produce highly-wrought sensational dramas, the im mense audience assembled in Old Drury on Saturday evening to witness the performance of " Othello" must surely be sufficient. It proved unmistakeably that no sooner are managers to be found who will take the pains to represent with talent and taste the great Shaksperean drama than an overflowing audience is certain to be the result. Thus the representation of the tragedy of " 0 thelle," with Mr Phelps as the Moor, Mr Creswick lago, Mrs Hermann Vezin Desdemona, and Miss Atkinson Emilie, attracted an assembly as large, in fact larger, than the capacious pro portions of the largest theatre in London could accommo date. That the audience was not an unappreciative one was clear and palpable from the opening of the tragedy to its close. The hushed silence as the terrible climax approached, and the intense attention of all who watched the progress of the dreadful passion which finally overwhelms the Moor, was remarkable. The Othello of plr Phelps has become one of his finest and most finished performances. He has entirely cast aside all those conventional points which many of his predecessors invariably indulged in, and in place of which he gave us a pure, original, and highly wrought portrait minutely per fect in every particular, and one that every person of taste and judgment must pronounce to be a masterpiece of art. The first portion of the part, until the opening of the third act, was uttered with the utmost dignity and ease, the half rebuke to his followers as they draw upon the father of Desdemona, being given in the most telling manner. There was none of that conventional roar that usually ac • companies the delivery of the lines by less talented per formers; on the contrary, the direction was given in the most natural manner, and the effect was thereby greatly heightened, The celebrated address to the Senate was beautifully declaimed; indeed, mith the exception of the great Edmund Kean, we cannot remember ever to have heard the lines delivered with more dignity and simplicity combined. His doting love for his new-made wife was ex quisitely marked throughout, and his brimful happiness when he meets her at Cyprus, and the wars ended, and a long career of married bliss seems opened to him, was ex pressed with a gentle power that seemed to be the overflow ing beneficence of a mighty nature perfectly at rest. The violent emotiou commences in the third act. The first outburst, viz.— _ _ "I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses," was given with terrific earnestness. Rage, tenderness, indignation, and ferocity fill up the remainder of the play until despair and remorse darken the picture to its deepest tones, and nothing is left but to throw over the agony the wide black shroud of death. In this arduous delineation Mr Phelps may have been surpassed in occasional intensity, he has never been surpassed in purity, fleling, and the sustenance of uniform passionate expression. He reached the highest point of art where ho stood, with his head rest ing on his bosom gazing on the lifeless Desdemona, the very figure of despair. Mr Creswick's lago was a judicious and good performance, but to our taste he was a little too minute in his endeavour not to over-act the part. He seemed thoroughly to understand the character, but his version of it required a little mere villany infused in the soliloquies and a little more boisterous display in the lighter scenes to show that his hilarity was forced and counterfeit. That his lago was a careful and intelligent performance we admit to the full, but in many parts it fell short of the mark. Mr Neville was the Cassio, but with the greatest respect to this young and rising artist we think the character should have been placed in more abler hands. Mr. Walter Lacy's Roderigo was especially good, and the same may be said of Mr. Rayner's Brabantio. Nothing could be better than the Desdemona of Mrs. Herman Yezin. It was gentle, grace ful, and sweetly womanly. Her reading was elegant and disteful, and her appearance the very beau ideal of female beauty. Miss Atkinson's Emelia is too well known and appreciated to need the slightest remark beyond saying that it was sustained with all its fine effects. The tragedy was carefully put upon the stage, the dresses and appoint ments being all new and historically correct. Sadler's Wells. On Saturday night a new pi, ce was produced here, under the title of " The Witchfinder." The scene of the play in Ma ssac h ussets, i n 1 693, at h o c n ie e nt Martin Holt, a reli g i ous f anat i c, who be lwiisevlaiecisdh p he ienr h iAod has been specially end owed by God with an infal liblegift so detectstodetectw : hence witchcraft, mercilessly puts to d e ath a ll whom he the name of " Witchfinder." Of Miss Marriott's impersonation of the idiot boy we cannot speak too highly. The withering curse she pronounces on the witchfinder was a piece of acting that elicited, not alone tremendous applauee, but a call before the curtain. The dialogue of the play is generally good . and much t o b e commended. Th e pi ece i s well put on tne stage, and the scenic appointments all that could be desired. The house was crowded ; and it is to be hoped that Miss Marriott will meet with the reward her enterprise deserves in thus plac ing before the public something more than a mere sensa tional drama. MR SOTHERN IN GLASGOW.—BRILLIANT SUC CESS OF " DATID GARRICK."—Mr Sothern has achieved a success in "David Garrick" equal, if not surpass. ing, that which greeted him in his first appearance here as " Lord rundreary." Nightly, boas, stalls, pit, in fact every part of the house, are crowded by enthusiastic and appreciative audiences. On Wednesday night quite a furore of applause broke forth at his exit on concluding his great scene in his second act, and though Mr Sothern acknow ledged the tribute paid to his performance by appearing and bowing in response, he had a second time to come forward before the plaudits ceased. A double " call" is something almost unprecedented.— Glasgow Daily Mail, A STATUE TO Rossim.—A small town in the east of Italy, where Rossini had once passed some time, conceived the idea of commemorating the great maestro's sojourn amongst them by a statue. The zeal was unhappily greater than the wealth, and after some months of unwearied toil the managing committee announced the sad fact, that although one spirited individual had of him self contributed the pedestal, which was already built and ready to receive the statue, the monied contributions only reached 1,200 f. In this dilemma they, with a courage that all must commend, waited on the illustrious composer, and asked him in what way he would himself advise this sum to be appropriated. " You want a statue," said he thoughtfully ; "and you have, it seems, only got as far as the pedestal." "Yes, Illustrissimo, that is (Jur case." " And you have 1,200 f besides tow ards your object ?" The committee bowed their acquiescence. " Gi7Et me the money then, and I'll stand on the pedestal half an hour next Tuesday. I must leave on Wednesday, or I'd repeat the performance."—Blackwood. ATTEMPTED SUlClDE—Captain Magoffin, Into a captain in the Confederate army, and now a paroled prisoner of war, was brought before the Liverpool m ►gis trates on Friday, under remand, charged with attempting to destroy himself by taking cpiura. lle had married during a freak, a Liverpool courtesan, and when he came to himself he was so horror-stricken and miserable that he attempted to destroy his life. lie was remanded, in order that the chaplain of the gaol might have an opportunity of speaking to him. It was stated that the prisoner's friends had obtained a free pasrago for him to Glasgow, where h 1• would be taken ca.° of by his friends. Upon this assur ance he was released with a caution, and some good advice on the part of the beach, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [RETJTER'S TELEGRAMS.] THE FRANCO-ITALIAN CONVENTION, PARIS, OCT. 10. The Constitutionnel of this morning, in an article signed by M. Limayrac, opposes the views of ex parties who see in this Convention the fall of the temporal power and the abandontr eat of Rome. " This Convention," says M. Limayrac, " will be executed in letter and spirit. Thinking otherwise, the ultra-Italian press grievously insult the King of Italy, as do the clerical press the Pope." THE DUCHIES. BERLIN, OCT. 10. Letters received here from Kiel say that Messrs. Samwer and Francke, the present advisers of the Duke of Augustenburg, have heard the rumour of their approaching dismissal solely from the news papers by whom this report has been spread. M. Samwer is on leave for several days, after which ho will resume his functions at Kiel. M. Francke is still in that town performing the official duties of his position, which he has not the slightest cause to resign. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, OCT. 10. The Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia have abandoned their intention of visiting Nice. Their royal highnesses will proceed to Switzerland and will have returned to Berlin by the 22'n December next. Herr von Bismarck is expected to arrive in this capital from France on the 28th inst. Baron Bndberg arrived here yesterday evening, and proceeds to-morrow to join the Emperor of Russia. FRANCE. M. Artom, Councillor of Legation, has arrived in Paris to resume his functions as first secretary of the Italian Embassy. Considered one of the most rising diplomatists of Italy, ha was called to Turin on the accession of the Minghetti Cabinet to fill the post of Chef de Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign AffAire. M. Albert Blanc, who was pri• vate secretary to M. Visconti - Venosta, has been appointed Chef de Cabinet of General de Lamar morn. This gentleman had distinguished himself in Free ch literature before he entered on Italian diplomatic life. The Imperial exequatur has been granted in the following cases ; Consul General—M. Thirion, for Schaumburg-Lippe, at Paris. Consuls—M. Kre. linger, for Belgium, at Havre; M. Alvarez, for Peru, at Bordeaux; M. Garcia de Isla, for Nicar agua, at Bayonne; M. Gauthier, for the Argentine Republic at Cette ; M. Popoff, for Russia, at Havre, Rouen, and adjacent ports; M. Bardot, for Bremen, at Nantes. Vice. Consuls—M. Bracesohi, for Italy, at La Calle ; Count Gori Savani, for Italy, at Port de-Bone; M. Derot, for Italy, at Calais; M. Ker. ros, for Spain, at Brest; and M. Wagner, for Prussia, at Honfleur. The Moniteur publishes an Imperial decree making the following diplomatic appointments : Baron de Talleyrand-Perigord, ambassador in Prussia, to go to St. Petersburg in the same capa city ; M. Benedetti, minister plenipotentiary of the first class, to be ambassador in Prussia ; M. Mercier, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the United States of America, to be ambassador at Madrid; Count de Reculot, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in Portugal, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the Germanic Diet, and minister plenipotentiary to the free city of Frankfort ; M. Boute-3, minister plenipotentiary in Grezce, to be envoy extraor dinary and minister plenipotentiary in Portugal; M. de Gobineau, minister plenipotentiary in Persia, to go to Greece in the same capacity; the Marquis do Chateaurenard, minister plenipotentiary in Hesse, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the United States of America; Count de Massignac, secretary of the first-class, to be minister plenipotentiary in Persia ; Count de Bondy, secretary of the first-class, to be minister plenipotentiary in Hesse. To be secretaries of the first-class—M. Lefebvre de Behaine and M. Armand, preois- writers in the department of Foreign Affairs, in the place of Count Massignac and Count de Bondy. Count de ChasseloupLaubat, who, as stated, is now at Brest, has visited, in company with Vice- Admiral Gueydon, the school fur mechaniciaus on board the Vulcain ; the school line of battle ship Breda, the gunnery ship Louis XIV., the Inflexible, on board of which 800 boys are assembled, and the Ville de Lyon, also a school ship for naval appren tices. The Minister has also inspected in detail the arsenal, the different docks, the workyards, BOURSE, Oct. B.—The retrograde movement still continues. Threes, for the Account declined at the opening to 65f. 45c., but have since slightly rallied, and are now at 85f. 500. Mobilier have receded to 925 f. Railway Shares have been also offered, and prices show a further fall. The market con tinued heavy to the close, and left off as follows 11 per Cents. . . 92 40 Italian Loan 66 3 Do. end month 66 45 Ditto Threes New Mexican Russian Austrian Spanish Threes — Rome Debt Deferrel monl 3 per Cents - 65 25 DO. end month.... 65 40 Credit Mobilier..., 920 Do. end month.... 915 Bank Shares - 3390 Credit k oncier llBO Roman RAIL WAYS. Orleans .... Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lon , bard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Cash. Account. 830 .. 835 975 952 60 900 , 903 75 605 612 60 497 60 - 491 25 .. 492 60 315 - - 430 - 436 25 510 „, 513 70 380 - 385 -- 470 472 50 POLAND. The Moscow Gazette publishes the eighth list of persons brought before the military tribunals and condemned, within the limits of the general governs went of Kiew, for having taken part in the Polish insurrection. This series contains the names of 343 persons whose sentences have been confirmed by General Annenkoff. The I n valids Busse also con tains a list of 19 condemnations pronounced by a military commission sitting at Niemirow, in Pocolia, and confirmed by General Annenkoff, against Poles accused of having taken part in the late insurrection. THE SCORPION.—The Academy of Sciences has received a parer from Dr Guyon on the mortal effects of the African scor pion's sting. Its seientifl?. name (Androctonus funestus) indeed expresses that it is fatal to man, and yet Dr Guyon states that perhaps out of 100 per sons stung there is scarcely ono that dies of it. The ancients, who under the na.xte of scorpion certainly mean the same insect, since it is found represented on Egyptian monuments and even engraved on precious stoves, had a much stronger opinion of its d ea dl y effects. Lucan, in his " Pharealia," B. IX., says, " Who would believe, on seeing the scorpion, that it has the power of causing such a sudden death ?” Leo Africanus states that the houses of Biskra are infested with scorpions, which are so venomous that death ensues imme diately after the s ti ng. A bd-All a tif, an Arabian physician and traveller, s a y s , "At Koos abund ance of scor p ions a re found, whose s t ing i s frequently mor tal." Dr Guyon knows of eight cases in which the sting of the African scorpion wa., followed by death ; three of the sufferers were men, two were women, and three children, Two of the latter cases occurred in 1856, near Laghouat, in Algeria. One was that of a boy nine years old, who was stung on the forefinger of the left hand by a scorpion, which was seen and crushed on the spot. This occurred at 8 o'clock a.m., and before noon on the following day the patient died. The sting had caused violent pain, increasing in proportion as the swelling ex tended to the arm. The boy bad cried a long time, and then vomited considerably, Th e s welling was in a great measure owing to the ligature which the Arabs always effect above the wound in such cases. The other case was nearly similar. Dr. Guyon states that children are more liable to die from the effects of the sting than adults, and that a.nong the latter those who are stung somewhere on the head aro most likely to die of it. AMERICA. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) (Per the Arabia.) NEW YORK, Sept. 27 (Evening). Sheridan on Saturday was six miles south of Newmarket, and, in despatches foe% arded on that day, reports that he had driven the enemy from Mount Jackson without bringing on an engaged ment. The enemy were rapidly retreating. Sheri dan captured 20 guns and 1,100 prisoners at Fisher's Hill. Richmond papers admit the defeat in the first day's fighting in the Shenandoah Valley, and esti. mata the Confederate loss at 2,500 men, and that o the Federals at 6,000 men. Generals Rodes and Godwin are killed, and Fitz hugh Lee and York wounded. Saerman reports Hood to be moving towards the Alabama line. Forrest, with 8,000 men and 10 guns, is operating in Sherman'e rear. He captured Athens with the garrison, and destroyed the rail.. road between Decatur and Athens. Forrest is moving to capture Pulaski, Franklin, and Shelby ville, and the intermediate blockhouses. Rousseau has taken the field against Forrest. Southern papers state that General Beauregard had received the command of the Confederate armies in Georgia. Davis is at Macon. Price has entered Missouri with 30,000 men, and it is suppoEed that he will march into a central part of the State. A large force under Generals Kirby Smith and Shelby co-operate with him. The Fe derals evacuated Pilotknob, and retreated to Mine ral Point. Price advanced 20 miles to the north east of Pilotknob. General Rosencrans issued an appeal calling the people to arms. Business at St. Louis was suspended, and prepa• rations were being made for the defence of the city A doubtful report from Cairo states that Mobile had been captured. It is reported from Lcu'sville that the governor of Georgia had tendered Sherman propositions of peace, and that the latter had sent commissioners to confer with the Georgian State authorities. The Confederates have enrolled all males between 16 and 50. The reported occupation of Brownsvil:e by Cor' tinas is unfounded, New Orleans adviccs assert that Cortinas re pulsed the French in an attack upon Matamoras on the 14th. The City of Baltimore has arrived out. NEW YORK, Sept. 29 (Evening). Grant reports that Ord's Corps advanced this morning, and carried the strong fortifications of Caapin's farm, capturing 15 guns and 200 pri soners. Ord was wounded. General Birney ad vanced simultaneously from Deep Bottom, and carried the Newmarket-road and entrenchments, scattering the enemy and taking a few prisoners. Birney is now marching towards Richmond, and has arrived at Janwion-hill. The Newmarket and Richmond roads, and the whole country, are full of field fortifications. There has been no direct communication with Sheridan for several days. Guerillas have captured his couriers. Southern papers state that Sheridan's cavalry is at Staunton and Waynesboro'. Forrest has de stroyed Sulphur Springs. Trestle has occupied Elkhorn Bridge, and captured two trains on the Chattanooga Railroad. He has now moved oft towards Fayetteville. Rousseau is returning to Nashville. Price has captured Potosi, Missouri. The com munication with the Federal garrison at Pilotknob is cut off. 12,000 Missouri militia are under arms. Secretary Stanton urges the people to encourage enlistment, to enable Sherman to hold Atlanta and advance still farther. A mass meeting in favour of Lincoln was held at New York. The Nova Scotian has arrived out. NEW YORK, Oct. 1 (Afternoon). Grant reports that Warren yesterday carried the enemy's line on the right, and was following up his success. General Meade has moved from the left, and carried the enemy's lines near Poplar Grove. Butler has repulsed an attack on his line. The operations on the north side of the James River are successful. The royal mail steamship Arabia arrived at Queenstown at 6 a.m. this day (9‘ll inst.) with 56 passengers and 18,280 dols. in specie. She landed 84 sacks of mails and four passengers, and pro• ceeded at 6.15 a.m. ; all well. The Arabia was de tained 15 hours off Halifax. (Per the S'. Andrew via Grteneastle.) NEW YORK, Sept. 24 (Evening). On Thursday night Sheridan continued the pur suit of General Early as far as Woodstock, where he baited to rest. Sheridan reports that he thinks there never was an army so badly routed as is that of General Early. Three thousand Confederate prisoners have arrived at Winchester. The City of Manchester and the America takes out 570,000 dols. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Sept. 24 (Evening). Mon 9 3, tighter. Gold, 2031. Stocks depressed. The fall in both gold and stocks continues. New York Centrals, 1184.; Illinois, 1211; Erie, 100; United States 520 dols. Bonds, 1091. Middling Upland cotton, 140. Flour, corn, and provisions heavy. Wheat declining. Molasses dull. Crude petroleum, 42; rcfined do., 71• Confederate accounts of the battle near Winches tar on the 19th claim that Early had repelled the Federal infantry, inflicting upon them severe loss, and was about following up his advantage, when a force of at least six thousand cavalry charged upon and succeeded in turning his right flank, and that the Confederates then retreated in good order to Fisher's hill, bringing off all their trains in safety. The Richmond Examiner states that in this battle the Confederates captured seven hundred prisoners, and that their entire losses did not exceed twenty five hundreek The Federal losses, according to this authority, were between six and eight thousand. The Richmond papers pronounce the Federal ac counts absurdly false. No Confederate accounts of the subsequent battle and defeat of Early, at Fisher's Hill, have been received: Brickenridge is reported to have left E:.rly's army and gone to a command in the southaweet. Sept. 27 (Evening). Money easy. Gold declined yesterday under a panic to 185, bat rallied this afternoon to 1961. In consequence of large speculative sales stocks de clined, but recovered this afternoon to the following quotations :—New York Centrals, 116 i ; Illinois, 119 a ; Erie, 94i ; United States 5 dole. 20c. Bonds, 1084• Sept. 29 (Evening). Money easy. Violent fluctuations of gold have taken place since Monday —between 183 and 204 in consequence of unfavourable rumours. The final quotation this afternoon was 196 i. Large specula% tive sales have taken place in stocks. New York Centrals, 117 ; Illinois, 119 ; Erie, 96:4 ; United States 5 dole. 200. Bonds, 109 k. Cotton dull. Middling Upland, 125. Flour and wheat heavy. Corn dull. Provisions tending downwards. Coffee inactive. Sugar steady. Molasses heavy. Petro• leuw, crude, 39; refined, 65 to 671. Oat. 1 (Afternoon). Gold, 901 per milt, premium. Stocks depressed. New York Centrals, 1131; Illinois, 116 ; Erie, 90i; United States 5 dole. 20e. Bonds, 1071. Cotton dull: Middling Upland, 120 to 125. Breadstufk heavy. Petroleum, crude, 39 ; refined, 63. THE TRIAL OF MULLER.--In reply to a commu. nicatian from the Solicitor to the Treasury, the soli citor engaged in conducting Muller's defence has intimated that the prisoner will bo quite ready to take his trial at the October Sessions of the Central Criminal Court, which will open on the 24th inst. ; and, in accordance with that an nouncement, it is fully believed that the trial will take place at the ensuing sessions. The counsel for the prosecution on behalf of tho Crown are—the Solicitor- Cieneral, Mr GifLird, and Mr Beasley; Sergeant Parry being specially retained, with Mr Metcalfe and Mr Besley, for the defence. Muller, as a foreigner, it is understood, will avail himself of his privilege of being tried by a jury composed of half English men and half foreigners, Mr. Gladstone's Visit to Bolton and Far nworth. Great preparations are being made, both at Bolton and Farnwortb, to give a cordial greeting to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who will visit Bolton tomorrow afternoon, and on the day following will open the public park at Fare worth. The right hon. gentleman will arrive at the Trinity.street Station, Bolton, at 4.38, where he will be met by the Mayor and Town Clerk, Mr Barnes, M.P., Colonel Gray, M.P., and Mr Alfred Barnes, chairman of the Farn worth Local Board. These gentlemen will escort Mr Gladstone to the Free Public Library, where he will be met by MrCAnnon and other members of the Library and Museum Committee. They will then proceed to the Market Hall, and thence to the Temperance Hall, where the Mayor will present to Mr Gladstone the following address from the Cor poration : To the Right Hon. William E wart Gladstone, M.P. Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir,—We, the Mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Bolton, in the county of Lancaster. desire to express the deep gratification which your visit to this town affords to all classes of its inhabitants, and the great regret felt on their part that your stay amongst them is unavoid ably for so short a period. In common with many of our fellow-countrymen of all shades of poltical opinion, we admire you as a statesman possessing rare and distin guished abilities, and as a Minister occupying in the Go vernment of this country a high position, and adorning that Government with such gifts of oratory and financial ability, combined with great scholarship, as have rarely been equalled ; and we are glad that the town of Bolton has the honour of being publicly visited by so illustrious a man. The opening of the park at Farnwortb, which is the occasion affording us the privilege of your pre sence, has our warmest sympathy, and it gives us much pleasure to add that, through the liberal provision of that Government whose finances you so ably control, this borough is undertaking the formation of a park for the free use of its inhabitants ; and we doubt not that the present and future generations of our town, whilst enjoying the benefits thus conferred upon them, will regard with grati tude the Parliament which, at your instigation, has furnished the mean: of such healthful recreation. In conclusion, we njoice in giving you a hearty welcome upon this your first public visit to Bolton, and venture to express the hope that the time is not far distant when we shall be favoured with a longer stay than that which you are now enabled to make amongst us—Given under the common seal of the borough of Bolton, at a meeting of the Council of the said borough, held on the sth day of October, 1834. After leaving the Temperance Hall, the party will proceed down Bradshawgate (to afford Mr. Glad stone an opportunity of inspecting the Crompton statue), and from thence to the residence of Mr. Alfred Barnes, Green Bank, Farnworth. On Wed nesday morning a procession will form at half-past nine o'clock, at the offices of the Local Board, in Derby street, Farnworth, and will pass through the principal streets to the park. The ceremony will commence by the Sunday scholars singing the 100th Psalm, and after a pryer by the Bishop of Manchester, and addresses by Sir J. P. K a y. Shuttleworth and the Rev. G. D. Macgregor, Mr. Barnes will present the park to the inhabitants for their use for ever. Mr. Alfred Barnes, as chairman of the Local Board, will accept the same, and Mr Gladstone will declare it open. In addition to the gentlemen before named, the Earl of Ellesmere, the Hon. A. Egerton, M.P., Mr Massey, M.P., Mr Bazley, M.P., Col. Gray, M,P., Mr J. Pilkington, M.P., and Mr Hibbert, M.P. have promised to attend. At one o'clock a luncheon will be served in a marquee. At three o'clock Mr Goddard will ascend in his balloon, at six o'clock there wiil be a display of fireworks, and at half-past seven there will bo a miscella neous entertainment in the New Hall, by the Congregational Young Men's Mutual Improvement Society. Great preparations are making, both in Bolton and Farnworth, for the decorations of the streets, and the day will be observed in the neigh bourhood as a general holiday. The Collision on the Great Northern Railway. On Saturday it was announced that a Midland train from King's-cross had run into a Great Northern train a' Welwyn junction on Friday evening. Further details have now been received, and it would appear that at the time of the collision a train of trucks from Lincolnshire, filled with potatoes and other agricultural produce, was entering the Welwyn station from the north, the engine being under the charge of an old and experienced driver, named Jessop, and at the time there were several fast trains, both of the Mid land and the Great Northern due, including the Midland down express. Whether from some misunderstanding on the part of the pointsman or the engine -driver of the up train could not be ascertained, but the agricultural produce train crossed the line, and, instead of going into a left-hand siding, crossed the line to the siding on the right-hand side of the station. At the time the agricultural train was cross ing the line to this aiding, the down express, whioh was known to be due, appeared in sight, and before the driver of the engine of the goeds train had time enough to remedy the mistake, either by going forward or retreating, the express train dashed in amongst the trucks, smashing them to pieces, and scattering the potatoes and other produce in all directions on the line and down the embankment. The express train was fortunately a very light one, having only seven carriage, attached to the engine and tender, and not a very large number of passengers, the rajarity of whom were in the afterpart of the train. The shock was tremendous ; but it is perhaps attributable to the velocity of the express at the moment that a serious loss of life did not take place. The engine of th, agricultural train, having crossed the line and got on the siding. was not injured, the express engine hav ing struck this train near its centre, but the engine of the express train. was much shattered and thrown off the metals ; and although three or four of the trucks in the agricultural train wore smashed, and several of the fore most carriages of the express train also, it is a singular cir cumstance that the engine -driver and fireman of tb e ex press engine, which it might be expected, would have been annihilated, escaped with but slight injuries. The conster nation of the passengers is described as fearful, and so great was the fright of many that they rushed out of the train so soon as it was brought to a stand, and being unacquainted with the locality, and there being but a very slight amount of light from the rising moon, several would have jumped over the parapet of the viaduct and been killed, had they not been restrained by others who were acquainted with the character of the neighbourhood of the occurrence. As soon as the first alarm of the shock had subsided the station master at Welwyn telegraphed what had happened to Hat field, in the direction of London, and to Hitchia downward, to stop all trains either way, also at the same time tele graphed the news to King's-cross that the accident had happened and the line was blocked. On receipt of this news Mr T. Williams, police superintendent, and subse quently Mr Leith, general superintendent, and Mr Burge, of the locomotive department, proceeded to Welwyn with a large number of labourers, accompanied by Mr Kirkwood, of the Euston-road, surgeon to the company, In the mean time Mr Dredge, of Welwyn, and other medical gentlemen from the surrounding districts, were in attendance on the sufferers, whose injuries, it is stated, were chiefly confined to superficial cuts about the faces and hands in some 12 or or 14 instances, and who with the exception of one gentle man, said to have had his ribs broken, were unable to pro ceed on their journey either on Friday night or Saturday morning. This gentleman still remains at the White Hart Hotel, Welwyn, to which house he was removed, but is stated to be progressing favourably. The escape of the pas sengers, when the fearful nature of the collision is consi dered, is truly miraculous, as, in addition to an empty horse box next the tender, which was almost demolished, the whole of the foot boards, door handles, the panels of the carriages were smashed, and the panels splintered and drove on the right hand or off side of the train. An investigation has been made into the cause of the ac• cident, and it has been discovered that the points were put right to have shunted the agricultural train on to the left instead of the right hand siding, and it is believed that they must have by some means shifted, and that the driver of the engine of that train had not time to discover the error and reverse his engine so as to get clear of the main line be fore the express came:upon them. GENERAL GARIBALDI AND LORD PALMERSTON.— When General Garibaldi came over to this country, he came —so, at least, his frit nds say—with a curious mis sionary project in his head. 110 wanted and hoped to con vert Lord Palmerston to the cause of European nationalities. In his interview with the English Premier, it is said that he eagerly pointed out what a glory it would be to England to come forward as liberator of Rome and Venice. Zhe story goes on to say that he received the same answer from Lord Palmerston which Victor Emmanuel is always re ceiving from the Pope. Lord Palmerston admitted the weight of all that the General had to say, but closed the conversation with a non possumus. To expect so enthusi. astic a programme from the aged Premier was not merely to ask England to enter on a now and active foreign policy for which she might be unfitted, but to ask a very old man to unfurl the oritlimme. MR. BANIM, one of the authors of the " Tales of the O'llara Family," is preparing a new edition of this series of Irish tales, with new prefaces and copLus notes. It is pretty well understood that many of these tales were rounded on fact, and that the characters in them were living Lunn. Thu' I'at her Connell is said to hw•o been described from Father O'Donnell, the _Etonian CAtholie Dean of Os• sort'. The new edition is to contain a good deal of gossip on, the real persous of these Irish stories, ~~ „„.„, • tr .111 T a HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, OCT. 7. The Quen, aceomptnied by Princess Hele l3a and Prince Arthur, and attended by the ID"' Emma Llscelles, drove to Loch Callater yesterdal. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston bane arrived at Cambridge House from Broadland& Despatches were received at the Colonial office u Saturday from the G o v ernors o f Gibraltar an Ceylon. Despatches were sent to the Governor° of the Falkland Islands and Canada. THE LATE MR JOHN MACDONALD —We learn that on hearing, on Saturday last, of the alerming illn esg of Mr John Macdonald, who, from the regularity of IDS autumnal visits to the respected minister of Crathie, was doubtless well known by personal appearance to the Quee n ' her Majesty immediately requested her physician, Dr Jer l e ; ner, to wait upon him; and the same e ven i ng , having be ar d of his death, the Queen s e nt a message t o th e manse to es." press how deeply struck and grieved she was to hear Of the sudden and unlooked f o r even t. Th e p r i va t e telegraph off her Majesty to B a l mora l was a t once o ff ere d as a means of conveying tidings to Mr Macdonald's friends in Fain burgh, and was used several times in the course of the On Tuesday morning her Majesty sent to the manse to i ll• quire whether any of the rel a ti ves o f th e deceased gentlo' man had arrived, and manifested great anxiety to lea rA , whether any service couli be rendered in paying the 105 duties to his remains, This case adds another to the rasa proofs we have tad how tenderly her Majesty sympathises, with affliction in all it s f orms , an d h ow ki n dly a n interest she takes in all familiar faces. We may add that the re mains of Mr Macdonald were conveyed from the mans e t : the railway station at Aboyn on W e d nes d ay morn ing bi small company of relatives and other mourners, and w ere thence taken south by railway to Edinburgh. On Friclal,. they were interred in the D ean Cemetery, —Edinbu t l P Courant. DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM TYLER.—This gent le ' man, for many years proprietor of the vast esti ° blishment known as the Royal Surrey Zoological G a rdens , Lied on Sunday last, aft er a s h or t ill ness , a t hi s r esidenc e ; Cringleford, near Norwich. M r Tyl er b ecame p ro prietor of the gardens in 1844, havi ng p rev i ous l y b een sec retary to Mr Cross, the original founde r o f th em , an d h e continue d , the proprietor.thip till 1858, when th e p ro p er ty w as vote , ' in a limited liability compa n y. Th e gran d mus ic hall v t ; afterwards used as a chapel by Mr Spurgeon. and is I I() ; doing duty as the temporary sit e o f St Th omas ' s Ilospite" GUNPOWDER STORES.—The Home-office lias: 111 ` stituted inquiries as to the quantify of gunpowder in stor e in the several localities where it is k e pt t o an y l arg e amou nt It is remarkable that there is a provision respecting th e quantity kept where the manufacture is conducted. There is also a limitation of the amount kept on hand by the licensed retailers of the article. There are also string ent regulations for the protection of the Government stores 1 1 sea and land. But it is in the large warehouses of th e manufacturers and wholesale dealers that the greatest quantities are to be found, and it is to these that the De vi legislation on the subject will be specially directed.' Observer. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT,—The Lord Chan; cellor and the commissioners who will be appointed by Her Majesty assemble in the House of Lords on Thl lrs , day next, the 13th i ns t an t, f or the purpose of prorog uiele the Imperial Parliament until Friday, the 11th N o vembe r , : There seems to be misapprehension i n th e p u bli c m ind, a nd erroneous statements have appeared in several new spaper a i in reference to the duration of the p resen t P ar li am ent. i t , was " beguu and holden on the 21st of May, 1859, ' and will not legally expire until the close of next year. The last was the "sixth" Session, and as Parliament is septennial' " seven" cannot be holden. According to the usual ri le ' tice the dissolution will take place next spring, and the e new Parliament assemble in November folkwing fo r - short time, and then adjourn to February or March O r the transaction of general business. SUICIDE FROM WESTMINSTER BRIDGEO II S.— tl4 turday morning, shortly before 10 o'clock, a man, apparently 50 years of age, leaped over the parapet of the centre a reb ,, of Westminster-bridge, the bridge being at the time crow ded with foot passengers and vehicles. On the alarm b e " raised, Henry Phelps, pierman at the Surrey side of 111 a bridge, put off in his boat, and succeeded in coming lie v itil the unfortunate man before he had sunk the second 6 01 and brought him ashore alive, but senseless. Ho was ta ke° to Westminster Hospital, where, despite the efforts of t he surgeons of the institution, he expired in about 20 minuses. FROM AN OVERDOSE OF LAUDANUM.--M 3 Saturday an inquest was held by Mr Richards, at the Adal and Eve Tavern, Hoxton, on Sarah Ann Reynolds, ag e ' 49, who died from the effects of laudanum. The deceas ed ' who was a sempstress, had been suffering a long time fr ° l nervousness and ticdoloreux. On Tuesday last deceased told one of the lodgers that she would have no rest until she took some laudanum. A female named Mears called to se a the deceased on Wednesday morning, but could not ma r d e her hear. The door was forcibly opened, when the dece ase , was discovered dead, lying with her head on the bed her legs upon a chair, with a bottle by her side. Mr surgeon, who made a post mortem examination, stated that he found the lungs and brain congested, which had be et ', caused through an overdose of laudanum. The decea sed had been in the habit of taking large quantities of laudarlaa. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased died fro:11 111e mortal effects of laudanum, taken to alleviate pain. AMERICAN BLOCKADE.—HaIifax, Sept. 22--TP" blockade runners the Lady Sterling and the Armsfr ° , l l cleared for Bermuda yesterday. The Little Hattie, wh ich sailed a few days since, returned to-day. Havannah, S e p t ; 17—The Denbigh arrived on the 15th from Galveston; „ r a t e the Susanna, on the 12th, five days from Houston. latter started wifh 325 bales of cotton, but reached this P ar , with only 73, having thrown the balance overboard to fa ci° litate her escape from a Federal cruiser off Cape 6° Antonio. The Federal steamer Honeysuckle reports thoe capture of the Matagorda (formerly the Alice), with 6° bales of cotton, and the arrival of the prize at Key Ni r e at. The Matagorda was from Galveston for this port. BEAU NASH.—His laws were suited to his ticoe 6 and this is the test of a good legislator, He 0 8 obeyed, both in these and other particulars ; nor did 12° admit the claims of rank or fortune to an exemption fram! his ordinances. The balls were to begin at six and close 11 ; eleven. He would not suffer them to continue a mac e° longer, on account of the invalids, and for the sake of I . ll° reputation of the waters. Not even for the Royal We ll/ would ho deviate from any of his rules. The Princes® Amelia once applying to him for one dance more after ha, had given the signal to withdraw, he assured her r o y al highness that the established rules of Bath resembled the laws of Lycurgus, which would admit of no alteration out an entire subversion of all his authority. He now e: t himself to correct the ball attire of his rude subjects. appears that the ladies offended by coming in white apron * and the gentlemen by appearing in riding boots. St' till' compromising was his aversion to the former, that he ove n divested a duchess of her apron at a ball and threw it am° l3s „ the waiting women, saying no ne b u t Abi ga il s appeared 1: white aprons. The duchess acquiesced and begged his 31° jesty's pardon. Whenever any gentleman, through 1 0 ° ,„4. ranee or haste, appeared in boots, Nash would make UP I. ; him, and, bowing in an arch manner, would tell him that 'he had forgot his horse, But a more serious undertall was to induce gentlemen to leave their swords them. These inconvenient appendages were sometime' alarming, for they were apt to get unsheathed on very light provocation, and sometimes with fatal effects. A duel took place in the Grove by torchlight between two gamesters, the tragical consequences of which had the effect of aiding 111 ` 3 policy of Mr Nash. He at length carried his prohibitio n itro effect, and they ceased to be worn at Bath, to the grea t relief of the ladies resorting thither. And if he heard of e challenge given and accepted, he instantly had both partial) arrested.''—Eagle's Guide to _Built. FATAL LEAP OVER EDINBURGH CASTLE ROCK' —On Friday morning, about 5 o'clock, a private in the 74th Highlanders, named Robert Wilson, expired the Castle Hospital from injuries he sustained by &ilia or throwing himself from the Argyll battery of the Cw t h : on Thursday morning. He was discovered lying 91 foot of the Castle rock, near the railway, about fv n i o'clock on Thursday morning, and he was rem ove . to the garriton hospital. 'Wilson was a man of aboult 35 years of ago, and had been 18 years in the regi rael t He bore a good character generally, but was oc casion e7 O addicted to over-indulgence in strong drink, and his str avb ° behaviour on some occasions gave his comrades the inflocB sicn that his brain had become affected during his s ervie : with the regiment in India. It is said that on Weill:10 01° f, night he had been drinking, and it is conjectured tha t 11 ., 0 had thrown himself over the parapet of the battery 'ac i " cuff-firing from delirium tremens,--Scotsman. COOKING WITHOUT FIRE.—The ingenious I t Babinet, of the F renc h I nst it u t e , h a s discovered the means of cooking without fire. He has just laid betel . ° ell° academy the result o f hi s ex p er i men ts. Hi s r ecipe i°- c ; Place your food i n a bl ac k po t, covere l w ith sundry Pa n a of glass, and stand it in the sun, Tho water soon boils, the food is s a id t o b e o f b e tt er fl avo ur than if cooked fa Zhu ordinary way. B u t we are in a season when, in Lo nd' at least, it will hardly do to trust to the sun as a subs titute' for a kitchen fire, and the probability is that this neW vention will be about as useful as that attempted in t. " ° land where the inhabitants occupied themselves in e ude ' lli ouring to extract sunbeams from cucumbers. SERIOUS ACCIDENT FROM GUNPOWDF , R. --- Soturday, Frances Turner, 12 years of age, residing 5 _ Brook-green, Hammersmith, was playing with hot father Pr powder horn, when the powder exploded, shattering 4e ig right hand in a dreadful manner, and otherwise ser iOs injuring her,